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The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
"Brave, emotionally authentic, and riveting." —Bitch
"A nervy, expansive memoir from a pioneering gender activist." —Kirkus Reviews
"A singular achievement and gift to the generations of queers who consider her our Auntie, and all those who will follow."—Lambda Literary
"Disarmingly funny and a pleasure to read. . . . I think everyone can gain something from Kate's honest, brave account." —Feministing.com
"This memoir shines a bright, unflinching light on those reasons and the consequences of living on the far edge of the fringe… With the brave, adventurous life she's led, Bornstein gives us a reason to keep on living, too." —Bitch Magazine blog
"Kate Bornstein is brave. She is very, very brave. Her memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, should be located in all three of the LGBT, self-help and biography sections of your local library and bookstores." —EDGE
"This memoir manages to be both wrenchingly transformative and luminously wondrous, a sumptuous literary combination." —Pride Source
"A Queer and Pleasant Danger is not for the faint-hearted, for reasons that become fairly evident (see: sadomasochism), but is ultimately uplifting, hopeful, even joyous." —Shelf Awareness
"This is a softer, sometimes sorrowful, side of the always-outspoken Kate Bornstein, and I loved it…A Queer and Pleasant Danger is a wildly wonderful read."—Long Island Pulse Magazine
"Bornstein is hilarious, honest, acerbic, and fearless in her writing…QAPD is at least three books in one, each of which is a page-turner." —Religion Dispatches
"Kate Bornstein's journey from moon-eyed Scientologist to queer icon is harrowing, heartbreaking, and amazing. This narrative is surely not for the squeamish. And yet, in the story of a sea-dog named Al who became a trans goddess named Kate we see the messy, unsettling, inspiring struggle of a lady trying—and at last succeeding—to let her own soul be known. Disturbing and wondrous."—Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She's Not There and I'm Looking Through You
"Breathless, passionate, and deeply honest, A Queer and Pleasant Danger is a wonderful book. Read it and learn."—Samuel R. Delany, author of Dhalgren
"To me, Kate Bornstein is like a mythological figure or a historical literary character such as Orlando or Candide who, by illustrating her struggles, shows the rest of us how to live. This book is destined to become a classic." —Mx Justin Vivian Bond, author of Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels
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Six of the 10 highest paid public servants in B.C., including one who makes $1.2 million, work for an agency many British Columbians have probably never heard of: the B.C. Investment Management Corporation.
Data from the latest version of The Vancouver Sun's exclusive public-sector salary database reveals the six, who invest money on behalf of public-sector pension plans, got year-over-year raises in 2012 of at least 20 per cent each.
CLICK HERE to access and search the public sector database.
And while salary data for 2013 is not yet publicly available, the agency acknowledges the six probably received a similar bump in pay last year, too, because the investments they've made have been doing so well.
The corporation, which goes by the abbreviation bcIMC, invests money on behalf of the pension funds of more than 500,000 public-sector employees in B.C., a portfolio worth more than $100 billion. The bcIMC is based in Victoria and has 192 employees.
Doug Pearce, bcIMC's CEO, has topped The Sun's salary rankings several times during the past few years, usually with total pay around $1 million.
But in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, Pearce made $1.2 million, a 23 per cent raise compared with his pay the year before.
For the last two years, Pearce was joined on the Top 10 list by just one of his colleagues: bcIMC vice-president Lincoln Webb.
Webb made the list again this year, with pay of $823,153, a 21 per cent increase from the year before.
And increases of 20 per cent or more meant four other bcIMC vice-presidents joined the Top 10 list this year, too: Bryan Thomson at $662,102, Paul Flanagan at $621 616, Dean Atkins at $609,687 and Daryl Jones at $564,552.
Rick Mahler, the chairman of bc-IMC's board, defended the high salaries and big raises, saying they simply reflect the impressive returns that bcIMC has been able to achieve the last few years.
Mahler said compensation for bc-IMC's senior staff is largely performance based: how much they're paid is based on how well their investments do compared with a relevant benchmark like a stock-market index.
The investment corporation calculates those bonuses based on a four-year rolling average. Because of how badly the world's stock markets performed in 2008 and 2009, said Mahler, bcIMC's performance pay has been modest the past few years.
But as the markets improved — and the worst years started dropping off the four-year average — performance pay has shot up.
Mahler said bcIMC's board made some changes to its bonus structure in 2012, which entitled senior staff to earn more money than they did before. But he said the biggest reason for the increased pay is simply that the agency's investments have been doing so well, with an annual increase last year of close to 10 per cent.
"They're paid on performance and, in 2012, they added … $1.5 billion of added value over what the market did," said Mahler. "Paying someone a couple hundred thousand dollars for bringing in $1.5 billion, that's a pretty good trade-off."
Mahler said while bcIMC's top salaries may seem high, they're low compared with similar public-sector pension funds in Canada. "Of the top seven pension funds in Canada, we're the fourth largest (by assets) and our compensation is the lowest … by a significant amount," he said.
For example, Michael Nobrega, the CEO of Ontario's municipal pension plan, which manages $60 billion in assets, earned $3.5 million in 2012.
Mahler also said that when bcIMC outperforms the market, that translates into a direct benefit to B.C.'s public-sector workers, who don't have to contribute as much to their pensions to keep the funds healthy.
"Our clients are doing cartwheels," he said.
The budget for bcIMC is paid out of an annual management fee charged to the pension funds it works for. That fee works out to about 20 cents for every $100 it manages, a fraction of the one or two dollars charged by some mutual fund companies.
Jones retired from bcIMC last year. Pearce has announced he plans to retire from bcIMC sometime this year once his replacement can be found.
Aside from the six bcIMC employees, the Top 10 list also includes three top traders at Powerex, the energy-trading arm of BC Hydro: Thomas Bechard, Mark Holman and Robert Campbell.
All three made between $930,000 and $985,000 in the 2012/13 fiscal year, roughly the same as the year before.
Powerex, which has 185 employees, buys and sells energy to ensure B.C. has a reliable supply of electricity.
But it also tries to profit from those trades, profits that Hydro argues help keep electricity rates low and contribute to government revenues.
Since 2003, according to Hydro, Powerex has generated more than $1.6 billion in income for the utility.
In 2010, Powerex significantly increased the pay of its top traders after U.S. financial firm Morgan Stanley tried to raid some of them away.
The final name on the Top 10 list is B.C. Securities Commission CEO Doug Hyndman, who earned $540,456 in the 2012/13 fiscal year. Hyndman is currently seconded to the Canadian Securities Transition Office, which is working on creating a national securities regulator.
Beyond the Top 10, four other public servants in B.C. made more than half a million dollars: University of B.C. president Stephen Toope at $533,445, Metro Vancouver planning manager Toivo Allas at $522,567, UBC dean of medicine Gavin Stuart at $513,905 and BC Cancer Agency oncologist Heidi Martins at $501,020.
Both Allas and Martins made the list due to large, one-time payouts they received when they retired.
While bcIMC and Powerex dominate the Top 10 list, the picture is quite different if you look at the Top 100 highest-paid public servants, a group you have to make at least $370,000 to be part of. Of those Top 100, 41 work at the Provincial Health Services Authority, which is responsible for provincial health agencies like B.C. Children's Hospital and the BC Cancer Agency. The bcIMC is a distant second at 14, with Powerex and UBC tied for third at 13.
PHSA says that, because of the types of facilities it runs, it needs to employ more specialist physicians than other health authorities and has to pay them a competitive wage to attract and retain them.
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Clam Chowder for 60
When my mobile home park put on a "Soup Day" potluck, this is the recipe I made. Everyone agreed it tasted as good—if not better!—than the version so popular in New England.—Gretchen Draeger, Santa Cruz, California
Total TimePrep: 40 min. Cook: 45 min.
Makes60 servings
- 30 cans (6-1/2 ounces each) minced clams
- 8 cups diced onions
- 1-1/2 pounds butter, cubed
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 quarts milk
- 3 bunches celery, sliced
- 3 cups minced fresh parsley
- 12 pounds potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 3 pounds shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Drain and rinse clams, reserving juice; set aside. In a two stockpots, saute onions in butter until tender. Add flour; stir to form a smooth paste. Gradually add the milk, stirring constantly until slightly thickened (do not boil). Add celery, parsley and potatoes and cook until tender, about 45 minutes.
- Add clams and cheese; cook until cheese is melted and soup is heated through. Add the reserved clam juice, salt and pepper.


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This has the potential to be one of the coolest moves Sony has done in recent times and will help save their image (somewhat). IGN reported that the latest episode of the PlayStation Blogcast said that Killzone 3's multiplayer component will become free-to-play (f2p) soon enough with the distribution being handled by the PlayStation Network (PSN). The downside is that there will be a level cap on the f2p mode which can be removed by paying $14.99. Players who had purchased the full version of the game will have no level cap.
This is a welcome move from the publisher and it would be quite cool to see this implemented in other first person shooters across platforms. A free to play structured multiplayer mode doubles up as a demo for the game's capabilities and can also allow players to get adjusted to the game should they choose to buy it. Moreover, modular sales of the game at a fraction of the total cost will benefit both consumers as well as the company. For example, I am not big into multiplayer FPSs mostly because it is hard to find local servers, so I usually only play the single player mode. I would be very happy to pay $20 for a single-player only shooter which costs about $60 for the version with the multiplayer and other bells and whistles.
The Killzone 3 f2p multiplayer download will be available on PSN on February 28th.


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- The Tools You Need for the Body You Want!
- 8 Misleading Fitness "Facts"
- Putting the X in MMX
- 3rd Law of Exercise: Intensity
- Recipe: Shrimp Scampi
You're tougher than you think.
Tony Horton
8 Misleading Fitness "Facts"By Steve Edwards
When it comes to your well-being, not much pricks up your ears like the word miracle. But when referring to health and fitness, the word miracle is generally synonymous with the word scam. That is, unless finding yourself suddenly motivated to exercise and eat better is something you would consider a miracle. Other than that, miracles don't exist.
At Beachbody®, we're always on the lookout for the next great thing. We analyze every diet, every workout, and every medical breakthrough that promises to reverse the obesity epidemic and make the real world look like, well, the set of The Real World. Without fail, what we find is that the only "miracle" breakthroughs are those that expand on what we already know—that only through exercise and diet will you effectively change your body and your health for good. Let's take a look at eight marketing miracles that fail to do much more considered miraculous than make their creators rich. We'll interpret each one and let you know how each claim may have a positive effect on your life.
- You can get thin with a supplement. One of the most common questions we get is whether or not our programs will work without the supplements. Given how many claims there are about miracle cures involving a pill, this question makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that when we tell people that diet and exercise are the major components of our programs, they often become skeptical. We've been led to believe by advertisers that the reason we're overweight or out of shape is because there's a secret ingredient in some supplement that we've been missing. This, to put it a noninflammatory way, is not how it works. The obesity epidemic is the result of two rather simple numbers: we eat about 5 percent more calories than we once did, and we exercise about 20 percent less than we once did.
This in no way means that supplements are worthless. While there are many shady supplement manufacturers in the marketplace, the reason we have supplements at all is because they can be effective in keeping us healthy. The use of supplements goes back thousands of years. Traditional medicines were the original supplements. There have been many advancements in the modern world, but basically, those same herbs and nutrients that aided people's health once upon a time have the same effects today. But they weren't miracle cures in the old days, and they still aren't. This is the reason we refer to our programs as being supplement-assisted exercises.
- Medicine can make you healthy. Medicine can make you not sick, but it can't make you healthy. Along with curing diseases and injuries, doctors now inject, alter, and prescribe us into becoming healthier-appearing beings. Cosmetic medical advancements are indeed impressive, but let's not lose sight of the facts. The human body needs exercise and nutrients to run smoothly. There is no way to chemically change this. There are certainly medical alterations that can be done to change our bodies once they've been misused and started to fall apart. And there are drugs and other chemical alterations that can reverse certain conditions. But try as they might, scientists have yet to come up with a way for us not to need to exercise and eat properly so we can perform to the best of our abilities. We may be able to increase our natural abilities using medicine, but without the fundamental groundwork that is exercise and what we eat, no amount of medical help will allow us to live long and vibrant lives.
- You can get ripped with the right diet. With Flat Belly Diet on the bestseller list and Abs Diet on the cover of Men's Health, it may be hard to believe that no diet alone is going to land you on the cover of a Joe Weider publication. Dieting can help you lose weight and greatly improve your health. But since that isn't what marketers like to spin, it's generally not what they pitch. The only diet that will give you ripped abs is a starvation diet. And that one comes with a lot of undesirable side effects.
Many of these diets, including Flat Belly Diet and Abs Diet, are basically very healthy. But if you want your body to look ripped, you need to exercise and diet. A healthy body can look lean but rarely ripped. A muscular body with too much fat won't look ripped either. Only a healthy and muscular body can allow you to both look ripped and perform well. A starved body will be both lean and ripped in appearance, but this is not due to your body being healthy—rather, it's due to the catabolic state you enter as your body feeds on its muscle for survival.
- You can have a six-pack by only working out your abs. Ab work will make your abdominal muscles strong, but you won't be able to see them unless your diet is in line with your exercise regimen. The easiest and quickest way to see your abs is to work your entire body intensely and eat well. The more muscle you add to your frame—your entire frame—the more your metabolism will increase, the more fat your body will burn while you're at rest, and the sooner your ab muscles will appear. And of course, the cleaner you eat, the faster you will make this happen.
Six-pack abs—like most things used to gauge fitness—are a function of one's overall health and condition. They won't pop up on their own.� But you're also not wasting your time working on them. Your core, which is in part your abs, is the foundation that all of your movements are based on. Having a strong core is the single most important aspect of being physically fit.
- One supplement can make up for a bad diet. We love miracles, especially when they don't require much work on our part. That's why we're always looking for a pill we can take that will make up for our bad habits. Supposed muscle-enhancing supplements have been available since Jack LaLanne invented the Universal Gym, but in the last decade, we've also been bombarded with things promising the opposite. Fat blockers, carb blockers, diet pills, cleansing pills, and so on all promise to rid us of something we wished we hadn't eaten in the first place. Unfortunately, this can't be done.
There are many good dietary supplements, but heed the word "dietary." Supplements work along with the other factors of your diet. Nothing can even hint at offsetting a poor diet. In fact, one of the main advantages of supplements is exactly the opposite: they make the biggest difference when you're dieting already. Basically, supplements are condensed nutrients. When you're exercising and also attempting to lose weight, it becomes difficult to get all of the nutrients your body requires to recover from exercise. This is the realm of the highly effective supplement. Proper supplementation can allow you to eat fewer calories than you normally could and still allow you to recover from hard workouts, which greatly enhances your results. Beachbody's ActiVit® Multivitamin is a great way to make sure you get the nutrients you need each day to get the most out of your fitness program.
- Cardio is the only exercise you need. Cardio isn't even a scientific term for a type of exercise, yet it's still often trumpeted as the be-all and end-all for exercise effectiveness. In my experience, this is often a cop-out by medical practitioners who feel the need to recommend exercise but don't want to risk being specific. Cardio as a general term means anything affecting the heart. The problem with interpreting the term is that everything you do has an effect on your heart. And although intense exercise works the heart much more than easy aerobic exercise does, it seems that most people define cardio as aerobic, meaning low-level movement. And low-level movement is not the only exercise you need, unless your physical state inhibits you from doing something more intense.
The key to changing your body composition, staying young, and remaining healthy is to do short bouts of high-intensity exercise. If done correctly, this is all the "cardio" you need. It also promotes muscle breakdown and hormonal releases that have a pronounced effect on your health. All "cardio" training is good, including low-level aerobic training. However, it just shouldn't be the only exercise you do.
- You can plug in and get ripped. Remember the old exercise machine that had a strap you placed around your butt that would vibrate like a washing machine? Back in the '60s, this odd contraption filled fitness centers worldwide and undoubtedly made someone a lot of money. It also never shed a pound off of anyone. And even though it's used in many gimmick jokes, we just can't stop trying to replicate it. If you ever see an advertisement for something that does all the work for you and claims you'll look better because of it, start searching for the remote. The calories you burn looking for it will exceed any amount you'll burn using the device.
As is the case with most gimmicks, there is a scientific example at their root somewhere. Most of these modern contraptions are some type of electronic muscle stimulation (EMS) device. These machines use electrodes to contract your muscles while you do nothing. They were designed for physical therapy and work well within this application of keeping your muscle tissue from atrophying when you can't work your muscles naturally. So, yes, these machines do build muscle. But they lack the ability to stimulate anything near what you would do naturally. To keep the type of physique you would acquire in a round of P90X® would require you to be plugged in for most of any given 24-hour period. And if you're going to go to this much trouble, you'll save yourself a lot of effort by doing any 30-minute exercise video—shoot, one 10-Minute Trainer® workout will do a lot more for you than a full night on an EMS machine!
- A single type of workout will make you fit. Beware of any exercise that promises to be "the only workout you'll ever need." Even if one workout did cover all of your energy systems using each workout modality, it still would not be all you need. The reasons are many, but primarily, it's because your body adapts over time to any exercise regimen. To achieve continued progress, you need to alter what you do from time to time. The more planned out this is the better.
There is a reason Beachbody designs fitness programs. For best results, you should train your body progressively and periodizationally. That is to say that you need to progressively overload your system as it becomes used to any one thing. Then, you should change the focus of your program to target various energy systems. By doing this, you keep your body stimulated and your progress curve will continually ascend.
�Actually, there is a medical procedure that removes the fat from your abdominals to make them visible. It does nothing for the rest of your body, does not help your fitness, and has potentially damaging effects over time.
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Getting ready to start P90X for your 2010 New Year's resolution? Tony Horton has some advice for getting through those first 2 weeks, when you'll be making the ultimate adjustment to get healthy and fit!
3rd Law of Exercise: IntensityBy Tony Horton
You're tougher than you think. The fear of pain or injury from working out is a mindset steeped in failure. You must learn to "find the line." Do the extra rep or two, increase your range of motion, and up the resistance as you get stronger. Intensity goes hand in hand with variety and consistency. And all three factors work as a triad that creates a platform for success. Programs like P90X and 10-Minute Trainer® provide variety. Your plan will keep you consistent.
Intensity is the final ingredient that gives you results. For a physiological change to occur, there first needs to be a stimulus. This stimulus comes in the form of an overload. This principle is known as GPO—gradual progressive overload. As you train over time, the overload should be slowly increased. Too much overload too quickly can result in injury. Lack of increased overload over time will result in plateaus. People who plateau often get discouraged and quit. Here are the 3 rules of intensity to help you succeed.
The 3 rules of intensity
- Find the line. The "line" is that special place you need to get to if you want any program to work. It's the desire to do the extra reps on push-up day or increase the depth and range of motion of your lunges and squats, and not being afraid to add more weight and resistance as you get stronger. It's discovering your pain/discomfort threshold so you can get the job done without jeopardizing good form and without injuring yourself. If you undertrain or just plain old "give up" because you "can't" do something the first few times, then you'll never know what it's like to be fit and lean. Find the line, do the best you can, and maintain good form.
- The over/under. You need to understand the difference between undertraining and overtraining. Undertraining is what happens when you keep doing the same thing, with the same weights, at the same intensity, and nothing much is happening. You know you're overtraining when you can't get through workouts without hurling (see "Give yourself a break" in #3 below), and you're so sore for the next 3 days that you can't walk, sit down, or feed yourself. You're training properly when you have some soreness in your muscles—not pain in your joints.
- Put on the "breaks." I'm a big believer in listening to my brain's interpretation of what's going on with my body while I'm exercising. When looking for the "line," you sometimes discover you've already gone over it. When this happens, it's time for a break. Here's a list of when to take breaks:
- Midset minibreaks. Say you're working your biceps and you've mistakenly chosen a weight that's a bit too heavy. You've set a goal of 10 reps, but on rep six, you know you're not going to make it unless you start crossing the line. Stop and hold the weights down by your side for a breath or two (chill!), and when you're ready, continue to rep 10. You can also put the weights down and grab lighter ones. This technique will work with almost any exercise. This is why I tell you to keep your remote nearby. Think of it as a minivacation.
- Give yourself a break. Far too often I see people trying to be superheroes the first couple of weeks of a program. This aggressive attitude can often cause a phenomenon known as vomiting. To prevent this from happening to you, I recommend NOT trying to "push through it." Superman wasn't built in 2 weeks. He was born on an icy planet and . . . That's another story. Do yourself a favor and kick it down to 80 percent when you're starting out.
- Illness or injury breaks. If you're getting sick or you're injured, then do the right thing: back off, back down, or modify. Hard exercise when you're injured or ill can be disastrous. You have to think long-term. More often than not, taking a break is the smartest approach for your long-term success.
- Midset minibreaks. Say you're working your biceps and you've mistakenly chosen a weight that's a bit too heavy. You've set a goal of 10 reps, but on rep six, you know you're not going to make it unless you start crossing the line. Stop and hold the weights down by your side for a breath or two (chill!), and when you're ready, continue to rep 10. You can also put the weights down and grab lighter ones. This technique will work with almost any exercise. This is why I tell you to keep your remote nearby. Think of it as a minivacation.
Tony H.
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"1st Law of Exercise: Variety"
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Recipe: Shrimp Scampi
Who says you can't live it up while eating healthy food? This fine-dining favorite cuts out the fat and amps up the flavor for a garlicky, peppery treat that will make you forget about all the butter and bread crumbs this recipe typically contains. Buon appetito!
1/2 lb. medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 Tbsp. yellow pepper, minced
1 Tbsp. sweet red pepper, minced
1 tsp. crushed garlic
1 Tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped
1 Tbsp. sweet basil, chopped
Dry, crushed red pepper to taste (optional)
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 Tbsp. white wine
Fresh ground pepper to taste
In a large nonstick sauté pan, heat olive oil. Add yellow pepper, sweet red pepper, garlic, parsley, basil, and crushed red pepper (optional). Sauté until vegetables are glossy and tender, then add shrimp and sauté until they curl and turn pink. Add lemon juice, white wine, and fresh ground pepper. Reduce heat and let simmer for about 15 minutes or until juices evaporate or thicken. Serve as is or over a bed of angel hair pasta. (Serving with pasta will change nutritional information.) Serves 2.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Nutritional Information (per serving): Calories: 300 Protein: 30 g Fiber: 0 g Carbs: 6 g Fat Total: 16 g Saturated Fat: 3 g
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Some time ago I published in this journal an essay on How the World Lost Its Story (October 1993). Modernitys project, I said with great unoriginality, was the attempt to maintain the Bibles grasp of reality while dispensing with the Bibles God. The long reading of Scripture in the West taught us"including those who did not notably obey Scripture"to perceive reality Scriptures way, as a history that makes a whole because it has a conclusion and so a plot. The modern West tried to inhabit this world while believing no Teller of the story.
Modernism (if you are in the art"historical discourse) or postmodernism (if you are in the culture"diagnostic discourse) is merely the self"conscious collapse of modernitys project. It is the despairing or gleeful recognition that you cannot very well have a drama without a dramatist. The recognition should not, of course, have been quite so long in coming, but humanity has a notable capacity for persistence in self"deception. If God is not, or is of deist persuasion and entertains no histories, that leaves only two possibilities: either we are to make up the worlds story, or the world just happens to have one. The latter possibility is remarkably implausible. As to the former, postmodernism proclaims the further unsurprising discovery that whatever universal stories we make up, whatever metanarratives, must be oppressive.
Then, more recently, I reviewed here T. J. Clarks history of modernist painting (October 1999). Clarks diagnosis is very much like mine. Clark construes modernist painting"not modern painting, which begins much earlier"as prophecy of a world freed from the bourgeois passion for comprehensible wholes, a world whose actual advent turns out, alas, to make no room for painting. The present moment is, he thinks, a travesty of the prophesied heaven, and hellish for art. Nevertheless, Clark wants to be hopeful: what we are in is not permanent hell but only purgatory. Unfortunately, Clark can give no account of this hope that is in him.
With this pair of First Things pieces behind me, I thought I might revisit the subject at the journals anniversary. So: can we have a story again?
It is not of course that there are no metanarratives still around. Modernitys social"political story"running from initial situation through contract, fictive or actual, to the liberal society"retains its rule over our political self"understanding. And to very different effect, reality is forcing the hard sciences into story form. This would be a welcome development, if only popularizers did not make sciences story itself another metanarrative.
The framework of the biological sciences has been narrative at least since Darwin. The implications of this have been disguised by the ideological insistence that below the narrative there must be deterministic mechanism. This ideology has no evidential basis, but is nevertheless taught in seventh grade as what science tells us.
More remarkably, physics also assumes story form. The universe goes from big bang to big crunch/whimper; and at the other end of magnitude, we discover that an elementary particle just is its own history. Again ideologues among the scientists insist that a theory will yet be found that generates the cosmos and its story sheerly from timelessly underlying mathematics. Those not so desperate to avoid religion will be content to wait and see.
Moreover, postmodernist theories are themselves metanarratives. They are one and all stories about how it came to pass that we thought we had a story, and how we are now to be liberated from this delusion. (At an American Academy of Religion session a time or two ago, where the panelists were holding forth against oppressive hegemonic discourses, an elderly nonacademic finally interjected, I wonder if you people know how you are oppressing me.) The form of these narratives is quite directly dependent on Scripture; they are narratives of fall and redemption.
Scientists generally believe their own narratives. Postmodernists are supposed not to. No one but John Rawls any longer believes modernitys social narrative, but we find none other to cling to. The joint effect is the problem. For the scientists narratives do not seem to be about us, the political narrative no longer suffices, and the postmodernist narratives, which are obsessively about us, finally conjure spiraling contradiction. At the turn of the millennium, what awaits appears indeed to be an eschaton, Nietzsches minus the superman"nihilism.
What is to be done within church and synagogue seems relatively plain. Gods people must gather the courage to subordinate other narratives to their own, to proclaim and live within a metanarrative that is meta in superlative degree. If the story the Bible tells, running from creation to consummation and plotted by Exodus or Exodus"Resurrection, is true , it is not just our story but Gods. If it is Gods story, it is universal. And if it is the triune Gods story, it cannot be oppressive.
Astrophysical cosmology and evolutionary narrative do not tell the encompassing story within which all others must be construed. For all this storys melo drama, it is an abstraction of reality, and believers must have the gall to say this, indeed to say that such abstraction touches reality only as it is construed within the story of God and His creation. Modernitys political narrative is not the comprehensive story within which the Church must be assigned its place. On the contrary, Augustine was right: the polities of this world are feeble imitations, for emergency conditions, of the divine polity.
If the coming period is to be any special period in the history of Gods people, it will be the time when we are at once reduced to a sect and forced to claim universality with unprecedented boldness, when we must openly and intentionally be tellers of a particular story that is either a fairy tale or the comprehensive truth. If the turn of millennium indeed is anything special, it is the moment when Gods people will have no choice but to summon such chutzpah and live by it.
Will we do it? Yes, because Hells gates cannot prevail. Will any particular segment of Gods people do it? Not necessarily; there is no promise that, e.g., American Protestantism will not disappear or adopt for good and all the mask of Nietzsches last man.
Will the world itself have a story? God knows. Perhaps there is indeed to be a penultimate end of history, not an end of newspaper events but a global imposition of storyless procedural society, of Clarks purgatory. In any case, church and synagogue, in charity for humankind, must pray against such a time of trial and meanwhile do what we can for our fellows.
We can but make the claim. We can note the postmodernist critique of metanarratives, and then offer a narrative that, because it is about God and us at once, is of a different species altogether. Will there be enough people in the world who entertain this obviously self"serving offer to make a difference? God knows. We can strengthen the voices of those in the scientific community who are considering the implications and possibilities of their disciplines transformation into narrative; and we can actually produce such accounts of Gods history with creation as show the truth and benefit of the sciences stories. Will this suffice for the culture to acquire a new version of what science says, a version that helps folk inhabit a coherent history rather than hinders it? God knows. We can not only expose the mythic character of modernitys social narrative"this is anyway almost universally admitted"but as synagogue and church display how there can be a polity shaped not only by measures to alleviate the love of domination, but also by love for the good. Will enough of the world look and emulate to make a difference? God knows.
Robert W. Jenson is Senior Scholar for Research at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey.
Some time ago I published in this journal an essay on How the World Lost Its Story (October 1993). Modernitys project, I said with great unoriginality, was the attempt to maintain the Bibles grasp of reality while dispensing with the Bibles God. The long reading of Scripture in the West taught us"including those who did not notably obey Scripture"to perceive reality Scriptures way, as a history that makes a whole because it has a conclusion and so a plot. The modern West tried to inhabit this world while believing no Teller of the story.


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Opera. The mythological lovers are interpreted by Katarina Karnéus and Kerstin Avemo as we stage this, our first opera by Gluck.
It's a fine art, defying Fate
"World-class the whole way through" Aftonbladet
"It's completely brilliant" Dagens Nyheter
"Katarina Karnéus impresses in every way in her role as Orfeo." Göteborgs-Posten
"A dazzling mezzo soprano and an explosive Euridice at The Göteborg Opera" Dagens Nyheter
"Exquisitely smooth and precise" Sverige Radio
Watch a film clip from Orfeo ed Euridice
When Orpheus' beloved wife, Eurydice dies, his grief is so great, his lament so plangent that the Gods relent and allow this mortal to journey into Hades, the Underworld, to bring her back to the land of the living. But Amor, the God of Love, sets conditions: through his skill as a singer, Orpheus must soften the hearts of the furies guarding the Gates of the Underworld; and on his way back he must neither look at Eurydice, nor explain why to her. If he fails Eurydice will die again.
Orfeo ed Euridice is a study of grief and grieving. A meeting between two people who, on the surface, have a loving relationship, but who in reality neither understand nor rely on one another.
2014 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of opera the reformer, Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck. For the first time in this opera house, we are staging one of his operas, in a production that is rather luxuriously gilt-edged. The rarely-staged Parma version of his eternally beloved Orfeo ed Euridice was created in one act for a soprano castrato, with the role of Orfeo in a higher voice then the original. Here, it will be performed by The Göteborg Opera's mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus, who is leaving the alto voice of this role for the soprano's range. Her Euridice will be international soprano Kerstin Avemo. This will be an exciting reunion for this pair, who had the audience rejoicing with their interpretations of Romeo and Juliet in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi last season. Amor is sung by Mia Karlsson.
The artistic team, with our in-house director David Radok at its head, has a long-term relationship with our opera house and our audience. After the successes with Dvořák's Rusalka, expectations are high for yet another enormously enchanting production of timeless mythology. Conductor and baroque expert, Laurence Cummings, has been a visiting conductor with us before, with the Handel operas Julius Caesar and Alcina. International eyes will also be drawn towards this production, since we will be the first opera house in the world to use the new source-evaluation edition of the Parma version.
Watch an interview with dramaturgist
Göran Gademan about re-descovering the
Parma version of Orfeo ed Euridice
A gallery of concept sketches by set designer Lars-Åke Thessman
The work that changed
opera history
Christoph Willibald Gluck was a cosmopolitan in the true sense of the word: born in Bavaria, musically trained in Milan, resident and actively working in both Vienna and Paris, as well as spending time in Prague as a student. His Orfeo ed Euridice was originally performed in Italian in Vienna in 1762 and is considered the first of his "reform" operas. To understand what was behind his reforms, it is necessary to find out more about what he was reacting against.
A stagnant form of opera
At the time of Orfeo, Neapolitan opera still stood in high repute. These were highly formalised operas that presented a chain of virtuosa da capo arias. The foremost representative of this form of opera and the one played most frequently today is George Frideric Handel, whose operas include Julius Caesar and Alcina dating from the first half of the 18th century. The relatively complicated story was put forward in recitativo (when a singer adopts the rhythms of ordinary speech) accompanied by harpsichord, known as "recitativo secco" or "dry recitative". The arias only reflected on the situation that had arisen and therefore gained a more and more stylised expression in which there was one emotion per aria: hate, desire, need for revenge, regret, despair, joy etc. At the end of the aria, its first part would be repeated and then the singer would vary it with his or her own embellishments, in a sort of vocal acrobatic act. To sum up: the libretto had become subordinate and the music had become increasingly disengaged from it.
Gluck made a clean sweep of the Neapolitan type of opera by bringing recitativo and aria closer together.
Three people reacted against this: apart from Gluck himself, it was his librettist Raniero de Calzabigi and the opera intendent from Vienna, Giacomo Durazzo. The eternal discussion about what is most important aspect of an opera – the libretto or the music – was resolved by going back to the origins of opera. As before, the basis for the libretto was taken from Greek mythology, but the story was pared down to a minimum in the spirit of Neoclassicism: in this version, the story of Orpheus, which had been set to music hundreds of times before, begins with Eurydice already having died and with Orpheus endeavouring to get her back, which is the only real action within the opera. Gluck made a clean sweep of the Neapolitan type of opera by bringing recitativo and aria closer together. He had all recitativo sections accompanied by the orchestra and considerably simplified the arias. The result was that the music, to a much higher degree than previously, really gave expression to what was being said in the libretto, word for word.
Reforms in print
In the preface to his next reform opera, Alceste, dating from 1767, he explained how he wanted in this way to bring the art of opera back to its original ideas when it had first come into existence 170 years earlier: "I wanted once more to give music its true purpose: to serve the drama by reinforcing the emotion it expressed and the interesting element of its situations, without interrupting the action or destroying it through useless and unnecessary embellishment…". But, to be frank, it was principally the opera intendent, Durazzo, who was the main impetus behind the ideas for opera reform, then Calzabigi the librettist, with Gluck then making the smallest contribution. Before and after Orfeo he composed operas in the older Neapolitan style with extensive features of coloratura and virtuoso singing. Even after his opera reform, he could still reuse previously written arias within new works, by transposing new words to the old aria.
In the preface to Alceste, Gluck also wrote that the overture ought to present the ideas within the entire drama. The fact that this was not the case in Orfeo – in which it is a free-standing, festive-sounding sinfonia – is because it was first performed for Austrian Emperor Franz's name day. This is also one of the reasons for the myth having a happy ending. Another of the reasons is that, in principle, operas always had happy endings during this period, although the original myth ended unhappily.
"I wanted once more to give music its true purpose: to serve the drama by reinforcing the emotion it expressed and the interesting element of its situations, without interrupting the action or destroying it through useless and unnecessary embellishment…" Christoph Willibald Gluck
Different singers give different versions
At its first performance, the title role was sung by an alto castrato called Gaetano Guadagni, and therefore the role was written in a relatively low key. The opera was a great success and, in Parma, it was performed again in 1769 at the wedding of Duke Ferdinand of Parma and Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria. At these festivities, no fewer than three Gluck operas were performed, each of them being one act of a trilogy, preceded by a prologue. The first two operas were Philemon and Baucis and Aristeus – the latter constituting the prehistory of Orfeo since it is Aristeus who causes the death of Eurydice. Bearing in mind the trilogy's overall length, Gluck shortened Orfeo a little but, above all, he had to rewrite the entire title role once soprano castrato Giuseppe Millico had been engaged.
For him the role was rather too low in key, so Gluck had to transpose the Orpheus parts up in range while also having to write modulations for certain transitions, to ensure that the chorus and two soprano roles were not finally in too high a key. In the first scene, for example, Orpheus is a fourth higher than in the original, in other parts a minor third or a major second higher. At the Göteborg Opera, we were faced with the same situation before Katarina Karnéus was to perform the title role; for that reason, we have chosen to present the Parma version. And just as in Parma, we are playing it in one act with no intermission.
In France, castrati were regarded as very unnatural, so for the premiere in Paris in 1774, Gluck once again had to rewrite the role, this time for a high tenor. At that time, Orfeo had already been performed in Sweden, although not by a castrato but by Carl Stenborg who sang the role in a higher baritone key, arranged by conductor Francesco Uttini. To emulate the original key, the role has, since the 1800s, usually been sung by female mezzo-sopranos or altos, and many of the performances are based on a version that Hector Berlioz arranged for the famous mezzo Pauline Viardot in Paris in 1859.
In this, Berlioz combined the Vienna and Parma versions with one another. In recent years, it has become increasingly common to permit male counter-tenors to sing the title role, usually in the original Vienna version. Performing the Parma version in that way would have been impossible, however, since a counter-tenor would never be able to reach those high key notes. For that reason, we are very proud to be able to present Katarina Karnéus in this rarely heard version – so unusual that it is not even available on CD.
Göran Gademan
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Our restaurant will be open after the performance of Orfeo ed Euridice to serve our fantastic shrimp sandwiches.
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The restaurant will open 2.5 hours before the performance for á la carte service. We can take a limited number of table reservations. Book online here, or call us on 031-13 13 00.
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A couple of tips from the Opera Shop:
Orpheus und Eurydike - DVD
Pina Bausch's interpretation of Gluck's masterpiece. Opera and dance united to a whole. From Ballet de l'Opera national de Paris.
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Orfeo & Euridice - 2 CD
René Jacobs magical recording with three of the world's leading baroque singers and experts Freiburger Barockorchester.


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The Poseidon Adventure
After the phenomenal success in 1970 of Airport ("Grand Hotel on a Airplane"), disaster films became all the rage of '70s pop cinema. The formula consisted of a melodramatic, soapy script with a handful of Oscar winners slumming, stuck in some kind of disastrous situation ranging from earthquakes to meteors. The best of the genre was The Poseidon Adventure, about a luxury liner that gets toppled by a tidal wave and the group of passengers trying to escape (by reaching the bottom of the boat). Besides excellent special effects and a great cast, what makes The Poseidon Adventure especially unusual is the underlying religious subtext; in some ways it's also an allegory about the story of Jesus Christ and his followers.
On its final voyage across the Atlantic, passengers celebrate New Year's Eve on the SS Poseidon. We are introduced to a cross section of archetypes that will become the group we will stick with as they are all invited to sit at the captain's dinner table (played with a straight face by Leslie Nielsen). A teenage girl (Pamela Sue Martin) and her obnoxious little brother (Eric Shea) travel without their parents; a brash New York cop (Ernest Borgnine) and his ex-hooker wife (Stella Stevens), on their way to meet their grandson in Israel (via Greece?); a sweet, old retired Jewish couple (Shelley Winters and Jack Albertson) play to the appropriate clichés; a lonely, soft-spoken bachelor (Red Buttons); and, most importantly, an outspoken renegade priest, Reverend Scott (Gene Hackman). Eventually, after being forced to fall in love with the cast, a massive tidal wave strikes the ship, flipping the boat upside down; a great scene of destructive mayhem follows, with some amazing stunt work.Continue Reading


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A new development has cleared the path for the return of Jesus Wilson to Florida State. How soon that happens, however, remains to be seen.
According to WarChant.com, Wilson has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft after originally being charged with a felony in connection to the "borrowing" of a scooter earlier this month. As for punishment meted out by the courts, the wide receiver will perform 30 hours in a work camp and serve a probationary period of one year.
Additionally, he's already made restitution.
July 9, Wilson was arrested and charged with the theft of a motor scooter back on June 11. Here are some of the pertinents from the reports:
The keys were in the ignition, making a getaway rather easy. The owner of the moped, Sebastian Bellini, informed police he thought he dropped the keys. Soon after the alleged theft, Wilson crashed the vehicle with damages costing $882.13. When police investigated the accident Wilson told police he had borrowed the scooter from a friend. When asked to identify the friend who had allegedly lent him the vehicle, Wilson failed to show up to a photo lineup. Wilson later sent the police a statement claiming to have taken the bike, which led to an arrest just days later.
Because of the felony charge, Wilson was automatically and indefinitely suspended according to FSU policy. Based on the fact that the charge was dropped to a misdemeanor, he's now eligible for reinstatement.
Wilson was a three-star member of the Seminoles' 2013 recruiting class who caught three passes for 23 yards as a true freshman. Provided he's back with the team, Wilson's expected to play a bigger role in FSU's offense in 2014.


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As Charlie always tells guests at our Cape Cod bed and breakfast, a trip along scenic and historic Route 6A can take 4 hours or 4 days, depending on how many times you stop along the way. Beginning in Sandwich and meandering along the Cape Cod Bay or north side of the Cape to Orleans, this bucolic road is among the most famous scenic drives in the country. It meanders past stately, historic homes, beautiful gardens, views of salt marshes, fields, cranberry bogs, many historic cemeteries, and gives you occasional glimpses of Cape Cod Bay. Whether it's beautiful views you enjoy or antique shopping, art galleries, or quaint shops and restaurants, there are scores of tempting stops along the way. After you have enjoyed a hearty and delicious breakfast at the inn, hop in your car, open the windows, drive up Tupper Road to Route 6A, turn right and you are off on an exhilarating adventure.
As you drive through Sandwich, you will see Sandwich Mini Golf on your left and just across the road on the right is Cottonseed Mercantile. You will want to save a visit to the Mini Golf course for a late afternoon or early evening game and Cottonseed's is definitely a place you will want to visit during your stay in Sandwich. But today is your "6A Day."
On the outskirts of Sandwich as you drive through East Sandwich you will pass Titcomb's Book Shop, a favorite haunt of this innkeeper, and The Glass Studio of Cape Cod, owned and operated by Michael Magyar, one of Sandwich's master glassblowers. Just up the road on the right you will see one of Cape Cod's famous cranberry bogs. As you cross over the bridge at Scorton Creek, you will see kayakers moving about along the creek. On warm summer days at high tide, kids like to jump off the bridge into the water. Take your time along here and enjoy this beautiful Cape Cod scenery.
Momo's Food Emporium will be on your right as you continue along 6A. They have great marsh views and wonderful specialty food items. East Sandwich is small but has some wonderful boutiques if you feel like a little shopping. On your right will be Mrs. Mugs and across the street is a little group of shops including Lavender Moon, and Painted Daisies. Stop in and have a look and their beautiful gift items.
Leaving East Sandwich, the drive through West Barnstable and into Barnstable Village is really beautiful. In several places, especially in the spring and fall months, you can see across the marshes on your left out to Cape Cod Bay. There are lovely old homes, art galleries, and shops all along the way. Claire Murray has a wonderful shop in West Barnstable. It will be on your left. You will love her hooked rugs and she now has a wonderful seaside style furniture line. If you are a quilter, keep an eye out for Tumbleweed Quilts at the intersection of 6A and Route 132 on the right.
|Sunset over Barnstable Harbor
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Leaving Barnstable, you enter Yarmouth Port. If it is nearing lunch time and you would like a light bite or a cup of tea, the Optimist Café will be on your left. There are lovely shops, galleries, and historic sites in the Village of Yarmouth Port and the Old Yarmouth Inn is there. Some of the best sushi on the Cape can be found at Inaho Japanese Restaurant which is located in the heart of Yarmouth Port and will be on your right.
As you leave Yarmouth Port and pass into Dennis, keep an eye out for the Antiques Center of Cape Cod. It will be on your right and is huge. This is a great place to spend a couple of hours. A bit further up 6A on your left as you get into Dennis Village is the Borsari Gallery and Tea Room, another of this innkeepers favorite places. Stop for a bite to eat or tea and pastries….YumYumYum and wonderful artwork. This is a converted meat-packing barn and a wonderful place to see.
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As you continue your drive on 6A and headed towards Provincetown, you will pass the Harvest Gallery and Wine Bar. It will be on your left and behind the Dennis Post Office. It is open from Thursday through Sunday and well worth the stop. The Red Pheasant restaurant is on the right side of 6A on the outskirts of the village. This is another great place for dinner. Charlie greatly admires their wine list.
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There are some really beautiful beaches In Dennis. Corporation Beach is off of Corporation Road. For Chapin Memorial Beach, turn off 6A to New Boston Road, to Dr. Bottero Road. To get to Mayflower Beach, from 6A turn on Bayview Road and take Dunes Road to the beach. There are many others but these have parking and public restrooms. You may want to stop at one for a bit and dig your feet into the sand, feel the warmth of the sun on your face, and breathe in the ocean air…now there is a calming moment.
The next village you come to as you drive along scenic 6A towards Provincetown is Brewster. The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is a great stop. It will be on your left. There is a nature museum and 80 acres of trails to walk and take in a little fresh ocean air. Not far from here on your left is a small group of unusual and interesting shops in an area called Lemon Tree Village. Among the shops are a great birdhouse store, a lavender shop, and a Cook Shop with wonderful things to buy for your kitchen. By-The-Bay gift shop is there and there is also a cute little café in case you need a snack.
|Brewster Store
As you leave Brewster, Route 6A takes many turns and twists. You will pass under Route 6 (the Mid Cape Highway) and you may even notice signs calling Route 6A the Cranberry Highway, but it is still Route 6A. As you enter Orleans, you will find it to be quiet large with many, many shops, galleries, and restaurants. Take a ride over to Skaket Beach for a great sunset photo or a stroll along the beach. Off 6A take West Road to Skaket Beach Road. At low tide, you can walk out where the water has receded and play in the tidal pools and perhaps see some sea critters.
|Rock Harbor Sunset
If you have taken a less leisurely drive along scenic 6A, you may have time to venture over to the ocean side of Orleans and to Nauset Beach. To get there from 6A, follow Main Street through East Orleans to Nauset Beach Road and take that to the beach. This is one of the largest and most famous beaches on all of Cape Cod. It attracts locals and tourists for swimming and surfing or just strolling along the shoreline. There are extensive facilities here and a large parking lot. There is a fee for parking.
|Cape Cod Bay Beach
During your 6A Day, You may have seen just the perfect place that you want to stop off for dinner. If not, just head on back to our Sandwich bed and breakfast where we will have a complimentary glass of wine waiting for you. We will be happy to direct you to one of the fine restaurants in Sandwich where you can end your day with some great local cuisine.
Jan Preus, the Innkeeper, chef, and artist in residence at the 1750 Inn at Sandwich Center, Sandwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts


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Fort Ruby
In their early stages, most military outposts were desolate places, some worse than others. Fort Ruby, also known as Camp Ruby, was built in 1862, during the American Civil War, in the wilderness of eastern Nevada. Most Army outposts of this time were built in remote areas, but this post was classified by the Army as the Worst Post in the west. During the seven years it existed, this post in particular was considered by all to be the epitome of the frontier station at its worst. Located midway between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Carson City, Nevada, it was built in 1862 to protect the Overland Mail route from Paiute raiders. The nearest settlement was 120 miles away.
The setting of the Fort was grim. Colonel P. Edward Connor, the posts first commanding officer called Ruby Valley, a bleak inhospitable place no forage or lumber to build with. No lumber for anything grander than log cabins, while horses had to be grazed over a wide area for lack of forage.
Morale at Fort Ruby from the outset was bad, as evidenced by the Garrison's desperate offer to forgo a total of $30,000 back pay if only Washington would order the regiment east to fight in the Civil War. Washington refused. Two years later, there was a tiny ray of sunshine which graced Ruby when a distillery was built nearby, marketing a fiery product called Old Commissary. However much that beverage lifted morale in the ranks, it was simply not enough. When Captain George Walker was given command of Fort Ruby in 1867, his first act was to take six months furlough. Upon his return to the command of Fort Ruby, he died of apoplexy.
After 1865, Indian raids became infrequent, and in 1869, the Army determined that Fort Ruby was no longer necessary. On instruction of headquarters, Fort Ruby was ordered to be abandoned and all of its men and supplies were transferred to Camp Halleck, some seventy miles to the north. Most of the abandoned buildings were sold to nearby ranchers. This happy action however did not come soon enough to avoid a final scandal, the court martial of Ruby's last commandant, Captain Timothy Connelly for having embezzled company funds.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961, with four remaining landmark buildings. Two of those, an enlisted men's barracks, and officers quarters, were both lost to history when destroyed by fire.


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Medicine has certainly progressed in the past 50 years, but the day when tricorders diagnose every ailment instantly and treatments are tailored to our DNA seems as far off as ever. Eric Topol is trying to bridge that gap. In his new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, Topol—the chief academic officer at Scripps Health—calls on patients to demand true digital medicine now. We talked to him about genetics, gadgets, and his vision of a Khan Academy for doctors.
Wired: Not many doctors get to take the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show, as you did in 2010. What was that like?
Eric Topol: It was a revelation. Normally people go to CES to learn about gizmos like HDTVs. And here I come to do a demo of wireless devices for health. The reaction was astounding: They began clapping when this little device I was holding showed an ultrasound of my heart on the big screen. It made me realize that consumers want to care about their health. They just need to get activated.
Wired: And that starts with this nifty concept you have of digitizing medicine.
Topol: Right. We understand digitizing a book, but what does it mean to digitize a human being? When I went to medical school, the term digital applied only to rectal exams. But today you can get a DNA sequence, you can get biosensors that record nearly every physiologic metric from blood pressure to brain waves, you can get a digital scan of any part of the body. These tools offer a window into each person that was unfathomable a few years ago.
Wired: But it's not just the body; this scales up to the entire infrastructure of medicine.
Topol: That's right. The digital world—the Internet and the cloud and supercomputing and social networking—is breaking medicine out of its cocoon. It's a superconvergence we've seen in other walks of life but not in the health and medical sphere.
Wired: So what does digitized medicine get us?
Topol: We can start capturing people's health data throughout their lives—all the little things that have lasting implications. For instance, we can track cumulative radiation exposure from every scan and x-ray. And consider the risk of drug interactions: Every year hundreds of thousands of Americans wind up in hospitals or worse because we didn't match up the patient genomically with the right drug or dosage. Just capturing those things could save thousands of lives.
Wired: How do we make this happen now, rather than just waiting for a new, net-savvy generation of doctors?
Topol: We need a Khan Academy for doctors: captivating 15-minute videos on genomics, on wireless sensors, on advanced imaging, on health information systems. These things can revive the excitement they felt as premeds, when they first decided to go into this field. If we can get practicing physicians up to speed and really inspired, maybe we won't have to wait a generation. I shudder to think about waiting 10 or 20 years for this transformation to occur.
Wired: But there are obstacles. For instance, many people in the tech world are afraid of running into bottlenecks getting FDA approval for new medical devices.
Topol: The FDA is moving very slowly, with considerable restraint and resistance. That's one reason the technology is years behind where it should be. One example is a device called AliveCor. It's a couple of sensors on a case that you can put on the back of an iPhone or a Droid phone to get your electrocardiogram and heart rhythm. It's very inexpensive—less than $100. You can even send the results to your Facebook friends. In Europe it's already approved and available today. But not in the US. A lot of these great, innovative ideas like sensors or rapid point-of-care geno-typing are moving slowly through the process with a considerable lack of support, as I see it. And these are largely just diagnostic tools, not therapeutics.
Wired: Meaning that they're not doing anything to your body; they're just taking information.
Topol: Exactly. A perfect example would be the glucose sensor that you can put on and get a reading every five minutes.
Wired: Which has likewise been hung up in FDA limbo.
Topol: Yeah. If you're a diabetic and you're using a glucose sensor, you have to carry your phone and another device, because the FDA doesn't want glucose going through the phone. That's really unfortunate; people would rather not pull out a glucose monitor in public. If it were in their phone, it would look like they're just checking email.
Wired: But people with diabetes have many tools to manage their disease, and they're self-tracking their care. You could argue that's the epitome of digitizing medicine and giving people access to tools. They should feel empowered. But here's what I call the diabetic's paradox: When you survey them about these tools, they say they're a source of frustration and anxiety—all these negative emotions. Giving them this responsibility and the tools seems to be a burden.
Topol: That's an important issue. Will having more information induce fear and anxiety? I personally believe that if the information is easy to obtain and work with, most people would want to have it. For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great? It could be rather seamless in your life. And you could look at your data and start to figure out what works in you: How much do exercise and certain foods help? What's going on in your life that gets your glucose out of whack? But instead, what we have now requires finger sticks multiple times per day, the ranges are fuzzy and inexact, and the tools are horrible. As long as it doesn't involve pain, as long as it's simple to use out of the box, this will work. This will be better. That's what we're aiming for.
Wired: You write a lot about imaging—x-rays, CT scans, MRIs—and how that's all gone digital. And that's very much a two-edged sword, as you well know.
Topol: Absolutely. We are grossly overusing imaging in this country, and that's really scary to me. The mass use of radiation scans is way out of line with any other place in the world. There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the US each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging. So I present this as a shout-out to consumers. When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don't think many people know about that. We need tools that let us track our radiation exposure for ourselves, each of us. So that, I think, is an important part of how we can reboot the future of medicine.


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Baldi watch: Bel Rio owner's absence prompts media scramble
Since the Hook first reported last week on the mysterious disappearance of Bel Rio owner James K. Baldi, local reporters have busily dug up new information that suggests the debonair 47-year-old freelance accountant and restaurateur's impromptu vacation could become permanent.
It also appears that his 25-year-old traveling companion, Kristian Throckmorton, a former Bel Rio bartender, was indeed the subject of a missing persons report. While Throckmorton's mother, Wendy Ellis, declined media comment when the story first broke July 20, a story in the Daily Progress reveals that the family filed a missing persons report, an action that appears to have launched a brief police investigation.
However, when the Hook spoke with Charlottesville City spokesperson Ric Barrick on July 27, he said that Throckmorton was no longer missing and had communicated with her family and friends. Barrick said police did not communicate with Baldi.
Ellis, an author who recently penned a book about being the wife of local pastor Lindsay Ellis entitled His Calling–My Purpose, held a reading and book-signing at Bel Rio last December. When contacted most recently, Ellis declined to comment on the missing person report or the nature of her daughter's temporary disappearance.
The Progress also reported that Gareth Weldon, who, along with the C&O's Dave Simpson, opened Bel Rio with Baldi in 2008, filed a $300,000 lawsuit against Baldi on July 7, accusing him of using business funds for his own purposes, withholding information on Bel Rio's financial condition, and failing to pay an agreed-upon capital investment of $50,000 when the three-person partnership was formed. His lawyer, Daniel J. Meador Jr., tells the Hook that Baldi has until August 2 to respond to the lawsuit–- or he'll lose by default.
Baldi was evicted in February from a Downtown Mall office he leased for alleged failure to pay more than $2,200 in rent, and on March 15 a tax lien was filed against Bel Rio LLC by the Internal Revenue Service for about $13,000 in allegedly unpaid taxes, according to C-Ville Weekly, which also reports that on July 16 the state filed a $5,000 lien for taxes the state claims should have been paid from Bel Rio employee wages.
Baldi, through his company Virginia Payroll & Tax, performed financial services for several local restaurants and businesses, though Baldi was barred last August, as previously reported here, by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority from performing financial services for failing to provide information requested by the Authority.
C-Ville also suggested the FBI was investigating the elusive bookkeeper, citing a statement from a hamburger shop owner who was a former Baldi client. However, no one the Hook spoke to, including Bel Rio's landlord Jeff Easter–- who might have been a first stop in any high-level legal investigation–- would confirm any contact by federal law enforcement; and FBI spokesperson Dee Rybiski told the Hook the same thing she told C-Ville, that it was against FBI policy to confirm or deny the existence of a case.
Landlord Easter was, however, contacted by Alcoholic Beverage Control agents, who, according to area ABC spokesperson Roger Stevens, were responding to complaints from neighbors about noise at Bel Rio. Stevens says that Easter, along with L7 owner Lex Gibson, who recently purchased the assets of the Elliewood Avenue restaurant formerly owned by Baldi, "voluntarily" handed over the liquor licenses that were in Baldi's name. However, Easter told the Hook that agents told him that Bel Rio's license was being suspended for "inactivity" and asked that it be surrendered. Unprompted, the ABC's Stevens said he couldn't comment on any "pending investigation."
Meanwhile, Baldi's sudden departure will likely continue to bring more scrutiny of the ex-restaurateur's business dealings. And while Barrick confirms that City police are not currently investigating Baldi (though he says the Commissioner of Revenue has submitted a warrant for alleged failure to pay meals tax), County spokesperson Lee Catlin, when asked if County police were looking into Baldi's activities, was uncharacteristically less forthcoming, providing "no comment" on any pending investigation.
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here you go from the DP:
"The Albemarle County Police Department has obtained a felony embezzlement warrant for Bel Rio owner Jim Baldi, a Charlottesville resident who shut his restaurant's doors earlier this month and has not been seen or heard from in weeks.
According to authorities, the 46-year-old is accused of embezzling money from WK Foods and Proffitt Management."
Seems newsworthy now!
Agreed. The Cville article quoted someone as saying that he was keeping the books for as many as 50 restaurants in town while running Bel Rio full time. He certainly was "keeping" their books, but not in a way that the proprietors would want. He did this with Cafe Cubano and Oxo. Who else will come forward? Newsworthy indeed!
WTF ! First the "HOOK" reports bad feelings and poor business practices at a hair salon !Now this Del Rio thing.Man aren't there more NEWS worthy thing in "Shan ra la" that they can report .Like who sleeping with say some politicians wife, are priest in C Ville pedophiles, do the cops run over aids patients in wheel chairs .You get "NEWS WORTHY" stuff .OH BY THE WAY I HEARD AT THE "MALL" THAT THE WHOLE CITY CONSEL WENT SKINNY DIPPING AT THE RESIVOUR TO CHECK ON THE SILT BUILD UP????!!!!
To the musician comment - just because people defended their interest in playing music doesn't make them 'supposed' musicians and it also doesn't mean they knew this dude was so mind-blowingly f'd. I wasn't one of them but they shouldn't get thrown under the bus for no reason.
These days, during a recession, restaurants all over America are going out of business. This kind of thing is actually commonplace, in a way.
This certainly is news, and hopefully, may dissuade others from neglecting their responsibilities.
Sounds to me like he enjoyed the idea of things and the lifestyle that goes with it, but didn't like to concern himself with details. Hence, all the unpaid monies and not providing details so he winds up getting barred and renegging on agreements, etc.
Somehow, it is refreshing to know that the Hook is really a local gossip rag that almost everyone reads!! Knowing your limitations is a great virtue, and not to be sniffed down upon. I would like to see the Hook engage the non-mall citizens by publishing a weekly column on local real estate transactions, much like the Washington Times does with Chris Sicks. Most readers on the mall, aside from being too cheap to buy a Daily Progress or a Wash Post, or News Leader, snap up the freebie real estate magazines. Most are looking to settle here anyway. Why not give them really something to look at in the Hook. Win-win, no?
Gasbag...of course we do! Better entertainment here on the Hook than Reality Television.....sad isn't it? Such small lives we have to look toward others misery and misfortunes to make ourselves feel better. Guess it could be said that we all need to get real lives! :)
Come on, keep up with the gossip. Get some comment from Realtor Roger Voisnet on exactly what Baldi's house for sale at 900 Eliott Avenue looks like inside and out. Middle of Belmont, listed for $250k, dropped to $189k, and hasn't sold. What's the dish on that, gossip rag?
It's been awhile...
People have pricked up their ears about Baldi's Belmont crib purchased for $90K 10 years ago and now on the market for $189K with "Coach" Voisinet. I'd lay good odds that house is "heloced" to the max and it's likely its equity has gone where Mr. Baldi has. So anyone obtaining a default judgment against him in court is likely to find out what half of nothing really means...
If I had more free time in daylight, I'd go on down to the courthouse where the deed books are kept and see if I'm right....
I agree with Paper Tiger that actually all news is form gossip. So lets enjoy the news now...
I used to work at Bel Rio, and I was never happy with how things were ran. I am underage as far as drinking goes and I never had a problem getting drinks when ever I wanted. This just showed me that Jim was not a good boss, him being the one who handed me the drinks for the most part. I think Jim will be getting what has been coming to him for a long time now. Sad but true.
I think what you're missing, freida is that "this is not news" actually means "something I'm not personally interested in so no one else should ever spend any time thinking about it, much less writing about it."
Reality television is quite entertaining. My favorite show lately is Deadliest Catch. It's the most dangerous profession in the world. When they leave Dutch Harbor, they truly have no idea if they will ever see their families again or not. Looking at their misery and misfortunes doesn't make me feel better. But, yes, I have a small life when compared to what those guys have to go through to make a living!
People wished Bel Rio would go away. Jim Baldi granted their wish. He went out in style though, took a very pretty young lady with him! This is better than Reality television! :)
OK folks,
This, THIS is the person all those supposed musicians were defending, and a number of supposedly friendly patrons. This was supposed to be the best thing going in town for music yada yada.
What was it Mayor Norris said in a meeting? " Let Bel Rio be Bel Rio?
Really? This is the type of business mentality we want to subsidize and allow to torture neighbors in their homes every night? We want to spend lots of money on police officers to monitor this sort of thing?
All those tax dollars supposedly being raised? Sounds like those were missing too...
Wait, someone wants a publication to be more like the Washington Times? Well, if Hawes can find a cult leader willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars to promote some ideology, then I'm sure that he'll be happy to sell out and cash a huge check.
Drove by yesterday and all the signage had been removed. I saw what appeared to be Mr. Easter in the process of of what I took to be showing the property to some people.
Can't wait for the "rest of the story" to emerge once Mr. Baldi returns to "face justice". In a perverse way I sort of wish him the best in getting away with enough of a grub-stake to start a new life elsewhere. In a similar perverse way I hope the City Govt. learns something about stepping up to the plate and fulfilling its basic obligations to its citizens. By basic obligations I mean getting down to the issue of enforcing standards of basic civility rather than having police cruise around in air conditioned cars basically just policing other cars.
At present people appear free to engage in all manner of uncivil conduct, to make noise, to make a mess, to engage in acts of petty larceny, to harass others, etc, and there is no monitoring of this sort of thing whatsoever. The City Govt. stood by idly for 2 years letting this man rub its nose (and that of Belmont residents) in the ordure he created with his "restaurant" and now it's sort of funny as the information about the underlying corruption emerges.
You have become the free version of The National Inquirer... This is ridiculous.
How is this not newsworthy??! Business owner runs a business that fails to respect its neighbors and makes out likes he has been victimized by over-zealous city officials. Business owner defrauds two business partners, converts money for personal use, fails to provide financials requested by partners. Business owner runs a simple business into the ground (how many other restaurants are failing in hot Belmont?) through mis-management, and then violates City, state and federal law by failing to pay employee witholding, sales and probably other yet-to-be determined taxes, despite deriving revenue from said business. Business owner then leaves a bold lie of a flyer on the front door of the business about being closed for supposed "kitchen renovations" that were never undertaken and then flees town with an employee. What is not news about this? The rest of us don't act this way. We're here, reading it, and I'm fascinated because I always thought the guy was shady anyway. Keep up the good work, Dave.
This is news because there is another missing blond girl involved.
freelove freida Get a new battery for your pocket rocket and "CHILL"
This is news, because it is the continuation of the noise ordinance fight between bel rio, their neighbors and the city. Baldi made sure he was a presense around the city, and skipped town with an employee. An employee that had not been heard from and was reported missing by her family. How is this not news?
Logan, it sounds to me like a lot more was going on than just Baldi being a public nuisance. But none of it is really all that surprising. Those that struggle in a business operations are the first to cry about how they are victims, or that they are being 'put' out of business by the rules.
No, they just can't run a business is what it usually boils down to.
Stop protecting them against the interests of other property owners who care for their property and make the neighborhood work.
Oh, the Hook is great. it provides a vicarious life, a parallel universe where we can don "Nomes de Plume" identities and exchange quips,jibes, and insults with "strangers" who might actually be friends, co-workers, maybe even lovers or spouses. We can all pretend we're Clark Kent and Lois Lane. And meanwhile we have the Forum God in the unlikely persona of Hawes Spencer to delete our comments when we get too froggy...
And Besides, how much real news happens in a provincial backwater like this? Aside from the occasional major crime, blizzard, or thunderstorm, there's not much to entertain us except indulging in salacious local gossip, which we all love anyhow and it makes it just like General Hospital or "Days of our Lives".
But for those who want juice on the local real estate world, I enclose the following link
For those who think The Hook is too low-brow and tabloid, hey this town has bookstores for you and I say to The Hook to keep the flow of community interest stories coming.
All news is a form of gossip. It varies in its detail and proximity or importance to its viewer/reader. News/Gossip can be funny, sad, uninteresting, enlightening or lies.
Even sports and weather reports can be taken as gossip containing, facts and opinions much of it can be uninteresting and mundane to most people.
As for him living on Elliott Ave ......first he never cleaned the side of the alley that was supposted to be his until the for sale sign was applied to the outside. Then the debris was piled on top of the fire hydrant. (some of it). When it snowed IF he shoveled his sidewalk he threw the snow in the street which we all know is a no no. It appeared he thought he was above reproach and didn't have to follow the same rules the rest of his neighbors did.
A neighbor
"I wasn't one of them but they shouldn't get thrown under the bus for no reason."
The musicians were only too happy to throw the negatively impacted residents under the bus when they spoke up about the excessively loud music, vandalism, and other illegal activities. Seeing as many of the problem activities were going on when the musicians were there, it's hard to believe they were unaware of what was going on as they were 'playing' when it was happening.
They would also have to be incredibly myopic/narcissistic to be completely unaware of some of the Baldi's other activities, as this was already hinted at over the last several months in the food community, including those establishments they play in.
I bet on both based on some of the ugly comments they made about the residents, and how they belittled them. It boiled down to 'buy a $90 head set to block the noise and shut up.'
No doubt some of those who played at Bel Rio were good and sincere. But setting up some over cranked amps and smacking the head of a snare drum or banging a few chords does not a musician make.
Everybody who defended this joint and spat on the residents deserves to eat a LOT of crow, and in my opinion, apologize for not listening.
I'm not sure the Albemarle Police Department issuing a warrant is newsworthy. It won't be the first mistake they have made in rushing to issue felony warrants against somebody. And it doesn't take much to get a rubber stamp from a Magistrate nowadays.
Man, I was having a pretty good morning until Idon'tknowanything gave me that visual of the city council skinny dipping. Geeeeeeez.
A weekly most hated -- yet everybody seems to read it.
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Efforts to encourage clean energy has resulted in more than 20 percent of global power being generated by renewable sources as of 2011. But still one in five people lack access to electricity, and as the demand continues to rise there needs to be a substantial increase in the production of renewable energy across the world.
Ensuring universal access to affordable electricity by 2030 means investing in clean energy sources such as solar, wind and thermal. Adopting cost-effective standards for a wider range of technologies could also reduce the global electricity consumption by buildings and industry by 14 percent. This means avoiding roughly 1,300 mid-size power plants. Expanding infrastructure and upgrading technology to provide clean energy in all developing countries is a crucial goal that can both encourage growth and help the environment.
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